Frail Rachel, 56, has been regularly beaten and starved by her kidnappers during the five-month ordeal she and her 59-year-old husband have endured.[>

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Dr Mohamed Elmi Hangul, who treated the pair last month, said: “The two hostages were in different locations but I advised the guys to reunite the couple, because both of them were worrying about their separation, but they told me the two people have reunited already.”[>

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Rachel and Paul, 59, were seized on their yacht last October.[>

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Somali politician Mohamed Omar Dalha said he hoped the couple would be freed within two weeks.[>